Understanding Ecomiles conversion rates

You’ve already started your sustainable travel journey, logged trips by walking, train, and bike, and probably noticed that each trip earns a different amount of Ecomiles.

That naturally leads to the question: how does the Ecomiles calculation work?????

At Ecomiles, we follow trusted and certified carbon-emissions methodologies, validated by well-known organizations such as Verra and KPMG.

Simply put, the CO₂ avoided on a sustainable trip is calculated by comparing that same route to one made with a combustion-powered vehicle.

Still sounds a bit confusing?

No worries, let’s break it down with a simple table to make it easier to understand.

Each mode of transportation has a base amount of CO₂ avoided per kilometer, calculated by comparing that trip to the same route taken with a combustion-powered vehicle. This avoided CO₂ is converted into the app’s currency, called Ecomiles.

For example, on a 10 km bicycle trip, you would earn 4 Ecomiles (10 × 0.4).

The same logic applies to miles.

On a 6.2-mile bicycle trip (equivalent to 10 km), you would also earn 4 Ecomiles, using the Ecomiles value per mile shown in the table.

Trips also go through additional checks, such as travel time, distance, speed, and the difference between start and end points , but we’ll leave those details for another blog post.